How to Behave in a Crowd
How to Behave in a Crowd A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent.Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the…
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How to Behave in a Crowd
A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent.Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. He doesn't quite fit in.
The only time they leave their rooms is to gather on the old, stained couch and dissect prime-time television dramas in light of Aristotle's Poetics.Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects a great career as a novelist--she's already put Isidore to work on her biography. But he notices things the others don't, and asks questions they fear to ask.
So when tragedy strikes the Mazal family, Isidore is the only one to